The zoo's oldest gorilla named Golo became 40 years old yesterday. Happy birthday and long life for Golo!
Today I visited first time my home zoo in this year. The weather was wet, windy, temperature was around 15 C degrees. Certainly not the best zoo-visit weather... First I went to the Ape House. This building exhibits Budapest Zoo's Western gorillas and Sumatran orangutans. Both have a baby. The 3 years old female gorilla cub (named Indigo) is a very cute and playful energy bomb, her existence is a life-enrichment for other gorillas. Unfortunately the 40 years old male gorilla named Golo shows stereotypical behaviours (turn his back on visitors, eat his own ****). Orangutans have a newborn male baby named Móric. He is only hanging on his mother what isn't surprising. In the free roaming hall of Madagascar House, Ring-tailed lemurs were very playful. Once a visitor tried to pull a lemur's tail, but fortunately a zoo volunteer called him out. Budapest Zoo's best exhibit is Australian Twilight for me, which is a walkthru hall in Australia House (former Bird House). Its inhabitants are Brush-tailed bettongs, a Ground cuscus and a plethora of Lyle's flying foxes. I spent half an hour there. Once a flying fox almost flown to my head. Unfortunately Wombats and Echidnas were no-show I saw a keeper who petted a young tapir. I was jealous of him, but I know this is only a small part of the zookeepers' job. Young polar bear named Seriy shows stereotypical behaviour, whereon I'm not surprised, because his full-concrete enclosure is a lick of paint and his brother moved to Pairi Daiza a few months ago. I always see more and more Muntjacs, Dholes and Warty pigs in the zoo. Today I counted 8 Muntjacs, 19!!! Dholes and 11 Warty pigs New Golden takins are wonderful. I've seen Giant otters to play! This was my day's best experience I highly recommend Budapest Zoo for anybody who plans an Eastern Bloc trip. If I get to it I'll happy to guide any of ZooChatters ( I'll upload my photos to the Budapest zoo gallery tomorrow)
Budapest's mayor, Gergely Karácsony gave an interview to Index. He mentioned the Biodome: based on his opinion Pannonia Park should be ready by 2024 at the earliest 50-50 percentage(8-8 billion HUF) of the costs will be covered by government and capital funds. Karácsony also talked about the soon-to-be-announced competition for the zoo-directors. Now nobody knows anything about the competitors. If I find out anything about them, I'll write to ZooChat right away.
I found the Biodome's full species list! Interesting new species: CHINESE PANGOLIN!!! Goodman's mouse lemur Dwarf slow loris Malagasy jumping rat Indian rhino Bonobo Grey langur Lion-tailed macaque Clouded panther Caribbean manatee Gharial Varanus reisengeri Varanus macraei Chinese giant salamander
Budapest Zoo reported that female Asian elephant named Angele is pregnant again They expected the baby will born in 2022.
First video about Budapest Zoo's fifth Tasmanian wombat baby Éjjeli felvételek a vombatgyerekről | Állatkert Budapest szívében
Based on an Index article the expected baby elephant will born in Spring 2021. We will know its sex soon!
How old was she (given that Budapest have had Mhorr gazelle for considerable time that might be a very respectable one)?
